Month: November 2021
You Are What You Make Of Yourself
The Persian poet Tabrizi says: آهن وفولاد از یک کوره میآید برون آن یکی شمشیر گردد دیگرش نعل خر است “Iron and Steel exit from the same Furnace: One of them transforms into a Sword, and the other one to a do...
View DetailsEvery Era Has Its Men
It is said: ولكل زمان رجال 'And every era has its men.' Every era will produce legends, carrying forward the torch of Islam. This flame will never be extinguished. But every era, also has its losers & traitors. History indicat...
View DetailsKnowing When To Speak
It is said: تل مه وایه چې پر څه شي پوهېږي خو تل پوه شه چې څه شی وایې 'Don't always say what you know, but always know what you say."...
View DetailsLogical Fallacy
A Logical Fallacy of the Atheists - الإلحاد Atheist Dad: "Did anyone see who created the Universe?" Son: "No." Atheist Dad: "So there is no Creator, it happened by itself." *Dad goes to work, leaving his room messy & son cleans up dad's room....
View DetailsUngrateful Humans
A servant served his king for 10 years. The servant once made a mistake, and the king ordered that he should be executed, saying: "throw him to the dogs!!" But the dogs refused to eat him, because he had fed them for a few days. The servant said t...
View DetailsPalaces In Paradise
There is no authentic evidence for this, but it is narrated that a woman had heard in a lecture that a palace is built in Paradise each time the husband and wife are intimate. She was eager to build many palaces for herself, but she tired her husban...
View DetailsToo Many Enemies
It is said: وليسَ كثيراً ألفُ خِلٍّ وصاحبٍ وإن عدوًا واحداً لكثيرُ "Thousand friends are too few, and a single enemy is too many."...
View DetailsBook & Sword
The scholars of the past used to say: إن الله ليزع بالسلطان ما لا يزع بالقرآن "God prevents by means of the SULTAAN (State/authority), what He does not prevent by means of the QUR'AAN." Some people think: if a scho...
View DetailsReliance On God
Reliance on God (توكل على الله) does not mean abandoning 'the means' (أسباب): ومرَّ الشعبِي بإبِل قد فشا فيها الجَرَبُ ، فقال لصاحبها : أما تداوي إبلك ؟ فقال : إن لنا عجوزًا نتَّكِلُ على دعائِها . فقال : " اجعل مع دعَائِهَا شيئا مِنَ القَطِرَانِ " ....
View DetailsNo Pain, No Gain
Persians say: 'تا رنج تحمل نکنی گنج نبینی' 'You will not find GANJ (treasure), until you endure RANJ (suffering)." Arabs say: كل شيء بالأمل إلا الرزق بالعمل "Everything is acquired with AMAL (hope),...
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